Quality assurance guidelines for superficial hyperthermia clinical trials: I. Clinical requirements
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2017
Quality assurance guidelines are essential to provide uniform execution of clinical trials and treatment in the application of hyperthermia. This document provides definitions for a good hyperthermia treatment and identifies the clinical conditions where a certain hyperthermia system can or cannot adequately heat the tumour volume. It also provides brief description of the characteristics and performance of the current electromagnetic (radiative and capacitive), ultrasound and infra-red heating techniques. This information helps to select the appropriate heating technique for the specific tumour location and size, and appropriate settings of the water bolus and thermometry. Finally, requirements of staff training and documentation are provided. The guidelines in this document focus on the clinical application and are complemented with a second, more technical quality assurance document providing instructions and procedure to determine essential parameters that describe heating properties of the applicator for superficial hyperthermia. Both sets of guidelines were developed by the ESHO Technical Committee with participation of senior STM members and members of the Atzelsberg Circle.
clinical
Quality assurance
superficial
hyperthermia
Författare
Hana Dobsicek Trefna
Chalmers, Signaler och system, Signalbehandling och medicinsk teknik
Hans Crezee
Universiteit Van Amsterdam
M. Schmidt
Universitatsklinik Erlangen und Medizinische Fakultat
D. Marder
Kantonsspital Aarau
U. Lamprecht
Universität Tübingen
M. Ehmann
Universitätsklinikum Mannheim
J. Hartmann
Universitatsklinik Erlangen und Medizinische Fakultat
J. Nadobny
Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Johanna Gellermann
Universität Tübingen
Praxis/Zentrum für Strahlentherapie und Radioonkologie
Netteke van Holthe
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
Pirus Ghadjar
Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
N. Lomax
Kantonsspital Aarau
S. Abdel-Rahman
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
Christoph Bert
Helmholtz
Universitatsklinik Erlangen und Medizinische Fakultat
A. Bakker
Universiteit Van Amsterdam
M. D. Hurwitz
Thomas Concrete Group
C. J. Diederich
University of California
P. R. Stauffer
Thomas Concrete Group
G. C. Van Rhoon
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
International Journal of Hyperthermia
0265-6736 (ISSN) 1464-5157 (eISSN)
Vol. 33 4 471-482Ämneskategorier
Energiteknik
DOI
10.1080/02656736.2016.1277791